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laughlinesandliterature's review against another edition
3.0
I actually really liked this book. It was about what I expected but it was a fun read. I loved Pearl's sarcastic sense of humor and even loved the fact that she was so un-remorseful at first. I thought Evan and Bethany were great characters. His hero complex was hilarious especially when Pearl was trying to figure out who the unicorn was. I really enjoyed this book.
sonietta90's review against another edition
5.0
Se avete odiato Twilight, adorerete Drink, Slay, Love.
Se avete amato Twilight ( e avete un po' di senso dell'umorismo) amerete ugualmente Drink, Slay, Love.
Se avete amato Twilight ( e avete un po' di senso dell'umorismo) amerete ugualmente Drink, Slay, Love.
kaitrosereads's review against another edition
5.0
Drink, Slay, Love is my first Sarah Beth Durst book but definitely not my last. With an odd mix of violence, romance, and laugh out loud humor this book has a little something for everyone.
Drink, Slay, Love is a story about vampires (not the sparkly kind.) These vampires are blood-sucking, human killing vampires. The only thing that changes that is when one of them, Pearl, is stabbed through the heart by a unicorn. She then develops the ability to walk in sunshine as well as a conscience. This causes problems when she is chosen to deliver a feast of humans to the kind of the vampires of New England.
Pearl was a very conflicted vampire. She wanted to please her family but that became more difficult as she developed a conscience and made human friends. She started out very aloof, cynical, and sarcastic. Throughout the book she stayed cynical and sarcastic but she also started to experience real feelings for the first time in her life. The Family (as Pearl called them) was very much like the mob. They were cruel, heartless vampires who only cared about themselves. They were willing to help Pearl clean up her messes but only if she was of some use to them. Evan and Bethany, on the other hand, were the opposites. They cared for Pearl and they wanted to help her. Bethany was a very rare friend who was fun, sweet, and nice. Evan was a sweet boy who had some secrets of his own. There was a great mix of characters.
The characters were great, the writing was fabulous, but the humor is what got me. This book is seriously hilarious. There are unicorn jokes, vampire jokes, Twilight jokes; just a ton of jokes that cracked me up. Pearl's sarcasm also added to the hilarity. Read this book for the humor if nothing else interests you about it.
Overall, Drink, Slay, Love is one book I am so glad I picked up. Even if you aren't a fan of vampires, I recommend this one. Just give it a try!
Drink, Slay, Love is a story about vampires (not the sparkly kind.) These vampires are blood-sucking, human killing vampires. The only thing that changes that is when one of them, Pearl, is stabbed through the heart by a unicorn. She then develops the ability to walk in sunshine as well as a conscience. This causes problems when she is chosen to deliver a feast of humans to the kind of the vampires of New England.
Pearl was a very conflicted vampire. She wanted to please her family but that became more difficult as she developed a conscience and made human friends. She started out very aloof, cynical, and sarcastic. Throughout the book she stayed cynical and sarcastic but she also started to experience real feelings for the first time in her life. The Family (as Pearl called them) was very much like the mob. They were cruel, heartless vampires who only cared about themselves. They were willing to help Pearl clean up her messes but only if she was of some use to them. Evan and Bethany, on the other hand, were the opposites. They cared for Pearl and they wanted to help her. Bethany was a very rare friend who was fun, sweet, and nice. Evan was a sweet boy who had some secrets of his own. There was a great mix of characters.
The characters were great, the writing was fabulous, but the humor is what got me. This book is seriously hilarious. There are unicorn jokes, vampire jokes, Twilight jokes; just a ton of jokes that cracked me up. Pearl's sarcasm also added to the hilarity. Read this book for the humor if nothing else interests you about it.
Overall, Drink, Slay, Love is one book I am so glad I picked up. Even if you aren't a fan of vampires, I recommend this one. Just give it a try!
zoraidasolo's review against another edition
5.0
I loved loved everything about this book. Pearl is a kick ass vampire chick I would love to know.
celsius273's review against another edition
4.0
“ ‘Welcome to my class, Ms Sange. I pray that you leave here smarter than you enter and that your classmates do not leach intelligence out of you by their proximity.’ [Pearl] glanced around the class. That was a distinct possibility.”
I really enjoyed Drink, Slay, Love. It was funny, unique, and best of all NOT annoying. The book follows Pearl’s transformation from emotionless vampire to caring kind-of-vampire. It all starts when she is stabbed by a unicorn, a supposedly mythological being, and thus gains all sorts of powers such as being able to withstand sun and have feelings. As the book goes on, Pearl comes to realize how cruel vampiric ways actually are and works against them in order to save humans.
The vampires in this book are unapologetically vampiric. They can only be killed by staking, beheading, or being touched by fire; they are extremely averse to anything religious and can be burned by holy water; they have no reflection; they must be invited into a house in order to cross the threshold etc. Basically anything stereotypically vampiric that you can think of, the vampires in this book are. And yes, they can’t go into the sun without being horribly burned which is why when Pearl sheds this side effect, her Family send her off on a mission to gather humans.
See the vampire king of New England holds a feast every century to welcome new vampires into his ranks and to strengthen the bond between vampires and this year, Pearl’s Family has been chosen to host. And it is Family with a capital F because that is the way the hierarchy of vampires works. Everyone in the same generation within a family is a cousin and anyone older is a uncle or aunt besides mother and father. Pearl’s Family happens to be very powerful and Pearl, as the youngest, is in no position to refuse when they order her into high school to lure humans to the feast for the King.
What I liked most about the writing in this book is how Pearl’s tone shifts from that of a haughty vampire to that of a caring person. I was annoyed at first by the economical writing for the first half of the book but looking back, it was incredibly clever on the author’s part to show Pearl’s transformation not only through meaning, but style!
The characters are awesome too though. Pearl has strength, beauty, and the confidence to bash in the most popular girl’s car and tell off a teacher on her first day of school. She sees high school cliques for what they are because of her vampire background and for the most part, she treats humans like they are the lesser being. Everything for her is perfect except that she has no time to sleep or eat because in addition to going to day school, she also has to do vampire stuff at night and so she’s becoming super stressed. Over time though, she starts growing attached to her human friends and though at first she’s super annoyed at having feelings, they become a part of her. The transformation from ruthless to compassionate is played out so gradually that I didn’t even notice it at first! That’s how well it’s done.
I absolutely adored the romance in this book because there’s a love triangle (kind of) that doesn’t take center stage. Pearl is basically betrothed to Jadrien, a fellow vampire with whom she trains and fights with. It’s actually hard to tell if they care about each other because sometimes they don’t act like friends but honestly, I think that can be attributed to the way that the vampires don’t show emotion. On the other leg of the triangle is Evan, a human that she meets at school. OFC at first she treats him as food but again as she develops emotions, she comes to see Evan as a person, as someone she could actually love.
There’s a lot to like about this book from a badass MC to cool vampire culture. It’s short and cute but drags you in and keeps you enthralled. I’d actually love to see a movie version of this and I’m kinda sad that it’s not a series :(.
I really enjoyed Drink, Slay, Love. It was funny, unique, and best of all NOT annoying. The book follows Pearl’s transformation from emotionless vampire to caring kind-of-vampire. It all starts when she is stabbed by a unicorn, a supposedly mythological being, and thus gains all sorts of powers such as being able to withstand sun and have feelings. As the book goes on, Pearl comes to realize how cruel vampiric ways actually are and works against them in order to save humans.
The vampires in this book are unapologetically vampiric. They can only be killed by staking, beheading, or being touched by fire; they are extremely averse to anything religious and can be burned by holy water; they have no reflection; they must be invited into a house in order to cross the threshold etc. Basically anything stereotypically vampiric that you can think of, the vampires in this book are. And yes, they can’t go into the sun without being horribly burned which is why when Pearl sheds this side effect, her Family send her off on a mission to gather humans.
See the vampire king of New England holds a feast every century to welcome new vampires into his ranks and to strengthen the bond between vampires and this year, Pearl’s Family has been chosen to host. And it is Family with a capital F because that is the way the hierarchy of vampires works. Everyone in the same generation within a family is a cousin and anyone older is a uncle or aunt besides mother and father. Pearl’s Family happens to be very powerful and Pearl, as the youngest, is in no position to refuse when they order her into high school to lure humans to the feast for the King.
What I liked most about the writing in this book is how Pearl’s tone shifts from that of a haughty vampire to that of a caring person. I was annoyed at first by the economical writing for the first half of the book but looking back, it was incredibly clever on the author’s part to show Pearl’s transformation not only through meaning, but style!
The characters are awesome too though. Pearl has strength, beauty, and the confidence to bash in the most popular girl’s car and tell off a teacher on her first day of school. She sees high school cliques for what they are because of her vampire background and for the most part, she treats humans like they are the lesser being. Everything for her is perfect except that she has no time to sleep or eat because in addition to going to day school, she also has to do vampire stuff at night and so she’s becoming super stressed. Over time though, she starts growing attached to her human friends and though at first she’s super annoyed at having feelings, they become a part of her. The transformation from ruthless to compassionate is played out so gradually that I didn’t even notice it at first! That’s how well it’s done.
I absolutely adored the romance in this book because there’s a love triangle (kind of) that doesn’t take center stage. Pearl is basically betrothed to Jadrien, a fellow vampire with whom she trains and fights with. It’s actually hard to tell if they care about each other because sometimes they don’t act like friends but honestly, I think that can be attributed to the way that the vampires don’t show emotion. On the other leg of the triangle is Evan, a human that she meets at school. OFC at first she treats him as food but again as she develops emotions, she comes to see Evan as a person, as someone she could actually love.
There’s a lot to like about this book from a badass MC to cool vampire culture. It’s short and cute but drags you in and keeps you enthralled. I’d actually love to see a movie version of this and I’m kinda sad that it’s not a series :(.
cjyu's review against another edition
4.0
4.5 stars
This book is all shades of wacky and crazy and I loved every bit of that.
This book is all shades of wacky and crazy and I loved every bit of that.
trisha_thomas's review against another edition
3.0
Although I found Pearl and her life with her family really interesting. I even found Evan and all his "hero complex" really really cute and sweet....I just...
I don't know. I wanted to love this. The cover is gorgeous. The synopsis sounded so funny and light
and this is a very light read. I guess I expected to laugh more. It just seemed to drag in the middle as the went through the mundane parts of highschool, trained with her hot vampire guy and just...
I don't know. it just didn't hold my attention as much as I'd hoped.
I did enjoy it, though, and I it was interesting.
I don't know. I wanted to love this. The cover is gorgeous. The synopsis sounded so funny and light
and this is a very light read. I guess I expected to laugh more. It just seemed to drag in the middle as the went through the mundane parts of highschool, trained with her hot vampire guy and just...
I don't know. it just didn't hold my attention as much as I'd hoped.
I did enjoy it, though, and I it was interesting.
toopunkrockforshul's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This was a reread though I did not remember anything about it besides the basic premise and that Evan was the unicorn . Better than I thought it would be! The lore was really interesting and I wish there was more of a focus on that than the high school drama honestly, but also that's to be expected of this kind of YA book I think.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, and Stalking